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WSB Round Twelve - Imola Race Day
26 September 2010
Shakey secures 8th and 6th place finishes in fine racing
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Shane Byrne's Althea Ducati Racing Team and his team mate Carlos
Checa dominated the Italian round of the 2010 World Superbike
Championship. It was an entertaining day of racing for fans at the
Imola circuit and in front of nearly 70,000 spectators the Italian
team were winners of both of today's races.
It was a great day for Shakey and after starting from the fourth
row, he managed to achieve more than he could have expected. Thanks
to two great races from the 2008 BSB champion, he was able to
achieve two top ten finishes. In Race 1, Shane managed to cross the
line in eighth position while he did even better in the afternoon's
race. For three-quarters of the race, Shakey battled hard and stuck
with the leading group, eventually finishing in sixth, which
equalled his best result of the season so far.
Team mate Carlos Checa started well in the first race and
towards the end, he moved away from Lanzi, Sykes, Haga and Smrz,
building up an important advantage which allowed him to fight
Haslam for the win and celebrating his second win of the season.
The historic double came in the afternoon's race, where Checa was
quick off the line once again, this time he had no rivals and ran a
solitary race to victory.
General Manager of Althea Racing, Genesio Bevilacqua sommented:
"The team has done an incredible job and we take away an amazing
double victory. This season we have has some difficult moments but
today makes up for all of that. We know that we could do this and
it wasn't just a feeling, it was a conviction, given all of our
great work up until today. I want to applaud the team, that has
come so far this season, all the people that have supported us, and
particularly Unibat. I'm extremely satisfied to have come to an
agreement with Carlos and with Ducati for the coming year too.
Today's performance is yet further proof of the wise choices, both
technical and human, that we have made."
Race 1 Results
1. Carlos Checa ESP Althea Ducati 1198
2. Lorenzo Lanzi ITA DFX Ducati 1198
3. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1198
4. Jakub Smrz CZE PATA B&G Racing Aprilia
RSV-4
5. Leon Haslam GBR Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000
6. Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R
7. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1198
8. Shane Byrne GBR Althea Ducati 1198
9. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alstare Suzuki
GSX-R1000
10. Cal Crutchlow GBR Yamaha Sterilgarda YZF
R1
Race 2 Results
1. Carlos Checa ESP Althea Ducati 1198
2. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1198
3. Cal Crutchlow GBR Yamaha Sterilgarda YZF
R1
4. Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R
5. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Alitalia Racing
RSV-4
6. Shane Byrne GBR Althea Ducati 1198
7. Lorenzo Lanzi ITA DFX Ducati 1198
8. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alstare Suzuki
GSX-R1000
9. Ruben Xaus ESP BMW Motorrad S1000RR
10. Luca Scassa ITA Supersonic Ducati 1198
World Superbike Championship Riders Standings:
1. Max Biaggi Aprilia Alitalia
413 points
2. Leon Haslam Suzuki Alstare
350
3. Jonathan Rea Ten Kate Honda
288
4. Carlos Checa Althea Ducati
274
5. Cal Crutchlow Yamaha
Sterilgarda 239
6. Noriyuki Haga Ducati Xerox
238
7. James Toseland Yamaha
Sterilgarda 187
8. Sylvain Guintoli Suzuki
Alstare 184
9. Michel Fabrizio Ducati Xerox
169
10. Troy Corser BMW Motorrad
165
11. Leon Camier Aprilia Alitalia
164
12. Shane Byrne Althea Ducati
154
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